Books 2005
Earlier this year, Elwing posted about the “Fifty Fifty Book Challenge” in which you read 50 new books and 50 old books within a year. I wasnt sure if I would have time for 100 books (that is almost two books a week), but I liked the idea of a book challenge to motivate me to read more. Instead of 100 books in a year, I decided to aim for 50 books both old and new. So far it has been a great success and I have some good (and bad) books.
[updated 2005-11-10 9:51 am]
So I think its pretty safe to say I’m not going to make 50 books this year. Probably in part because of the amount of work I have been doing for KDE and my addiction to SuDoKu on the Metro. I’m not disappointed with my efforts however, I read several books I’ve been meaning to read for a long time, and I am always reading textbooks and research papers.
Books 2005
- The Difference Engine - William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
- Burning Chrome - William Gibson
- Automated Alice - Jeff Noon
- NEXUS - Mark Buchanan
- The Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq
- The Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
- Social Blunders - Tim Sandlin
- Illiad - Homer
- I Robot - Isaac Asimov
- Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
- The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
- Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula Le Guin
- The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin
- Emotional Design - Donald A. Norman
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Dealers of Lightning - Michael A. Hiltzik
- The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
- The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman
- Interaction Design - Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp
- Japanese Women Dont Old Or Fat - Naomi Moriyama, William Doyle
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- GUI Bloopers - Jeff Johnson